Vampire Buffyverse

Examples

* Jesse McNally was attracted to Cordelia Chase, who snubbed him for his awkwardness. As a vampire, Jesse approached Cordelia in a predatory manner, filled with confidence and charisma, and for once she consented to dance with him.

* Harmony Kendall was a vain, vapid, and snobbish member of the Cordettes before being sired. As a vampire, she was still vapid and snobbish, and remarked that it was harder for her to do the right thing without a soul, although she remained mostly unchanged.

* Drusilla was a pious and chaste Catholic girl, gifted/cursed with psychic abilities and disturbed because she did not know what was causing her visions. As a vampire, Drusilla is highly sexual and kinky, and revels in her psychic powers.

* Darla despised religion as a human and as a vampire. Angel mentions that Darla had a fascination with religious wars. Christian religion rejected Darla's lifestyle as a human, so it seems the vampire Darla enjoys religious war as an example of religion causing destruction and bloodshed instead of salvation.

* Willow was a studious and cautious teenage girl, a bookish wallflower. As the series progressed, Willow becomes a more assertive character, a powerful witch, and a lesbian. As a vampire, in the episode Doppelgängland, Willow is an assertive vampire steeped in sexuality, both homosexual and heterosexual.

* Angelus: Liam lived haunted by his father's disapproval and expectations that he would never be more than a lazy, womanizing drunk. As a vampire, Angelus is driven by the memory of his father's contempt to show that he can be something great: the most flamboyantly sadistic vampire ever recorded.

* Spike: William was an overly-romantic, pseudo-intellectual outcast, ridiculed by his contemporaries whom he regarded as ignorant and insensitive. As a vampire, Spike lashes out at society, rejecting bureaucracy and authority and finding pleasure in mayhem and chaos, while still remaining a romantic at heart. In addition, William was a shy young man with a peaceful nature and a love for poetry; in contrast, he later was considered one of the most violent vampires to exist, though not nearly so much as Angelus. While he lacked much of the utterly sadistic qualities of Angelus, Spike loved the thrill of simple combat more. Angelus enjoyed combat, but loved tormenting his enemies to the point of despair more than killing them. Spike simply loved battle for its own sake. Both as a human and as a vampire, Spike demonstrates an all-consuming, obsessive love, first for his mother, then for Drusilla, and finally for Buffy. He will often pursue his love object to the point of near self-destruction.

* Anne, William's devoted mother, feared William was too attached to her but could not bring herself to the cruelty of saying so. As a vampire she has no such compunctions, and taunts William with the insinuation of Oedipal deviancy. ("Lies My Parents Told Me")

* Sam Lawson: Sam Lawson's need to serve a higher purpose, to be guided by a cause giving sense to his actions, haunted him into his unlife. He found himself completely incapable of obtaining pleasure from killing or torturing. While Lawson believes this was caused by being sired by a vampire with a soul, Angel believes Lawson merely lacked a mission, a cause to live for.

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